RFR: 8341470: BigDecimal.stripTrailingZeros() optimization [v12]

[fabioromano1]

On Wed, 9 Oct 2024 21:11:16 GMT, Raffaello Giulietti <rgiulietti at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> @rgiulietti At least for me, the expression "the bits that differ from its sign bit" is misleading, it seems to implicitly imply that he is talking about the 1s bits which are not sign bits, while it means the bits whose value differs from the value of the sign bits...
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> The class Javadoc mentions, in at least two places, that the two's complement representation conceptually has an infinite number of leading virtual sign bits.
> Once this point is clear, IMO the method's own Javadoc is then clear in turn. Maybe it could be improved as in "the bits that differ _in value_ from its sign bit". (Changing the spec requires another process and another, separate issue, but it can be done if needed.)

@rgiulietti So it must have been my limitation, but I didn't realize it, even though I knew that there are virtually infinite sign bits...

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/21323#discussion_r1794847956